NEW Power Supply Upgrade Question

NEW Power Supply Upgrade Question

Hi All

In order to prepare for future video card upgrade, decided for upcoming birthday to purchase newer power supply for my Asus M52BC_M32BC01 System, Found out Motherboard is M5A97 EVO 2, is there anything I should be aware of before doing the NEW Power supply install, plan on getting an EVGA at least 550watt G3 Modular Power supply, Current one is a Generic 350 watt from Asus

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For future proofing I would personally go for the highest wattage PS I could afford.
For the past 5 years I've used an Enermax 650 Watt PS and while it has been adequate for my next one I'd go for 1000 Watts minimum.

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Also one way to find out how much power you need is to go to pcpartpicker.com and enter your components and the new graphics card and it'l total up the wattage your system will require. So if the site says a total of 480w for instance, you could go for 550w for some headroom. The site will also notify you of any incompatibilities between your components. I would say that 550-650w PSU would be sufficient.

One thing to note is always go for a well known brand that has a good reputation. You don't want the PSU to be the weakest link.

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I generally put a 650W PSU in the new builds I make, it's a bit more than needed usually but the extra is there 'just in case' , 1000W is way overkill for almost all builds.

Unless money is tight , I try and persuade the customer to buy a modular power supply , means I can only put in the power connector wires I need for the build and if any more are needed later they can just be plugged in to the empty sockets, keeps cable mess to a minimum.

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I chose EVGA for their 10 year warranty after having had two XFX PSUs fail within one year. Look at the prices and choose something 600W plus. I bought an EVGA 850W PSU since it was only slightly more than lower rated EVGA options.

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Yeah gonna see if I can afford a 600 watt model, Video card planning to get in the Future Possibly AMD RX 460, since Processor is an AMD FX 8310 8 Core, decided to stick with AMD side of things, and yes going fully Modular supply so only will need hooked up cables actually used, which should cut down on cable cutter and help further with cooling as well.

Case don't know if can fit a Dual slot card, so might get RX 460 single slot card from XFX or perhaps MSI or some company

Bluetooth with Wireless card below video card do use with Phone at times, wireless portion of card don't use though, use the 1Gb Ethernet connection.

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